Patch 6.2.2: Content Made Easier by Flying in Draenor

Flying in Draenor is coming in Patch 6.2.1! We have a Flying Tool and Guide to Draenor Pathfinder, but in this guide we’ll be looking at what will be much easier to do in Draenor with flying. Perhaps you’ll find something you enjoyed doing in a past expansion and want to revisit, or learn something new!

Archaeology

Archaeology requires players to travel between dig sites and loot fragments which count towards different artifacts and relics.

Archaeology has always been a slow process between the vast distances between randomly-spawning dig sites and the high chance you’ll have a common artifact to complete, but no flying in Draenor meant the travel time between dig sites was even longer.

With flying, you won’t have to plot out flight master routes to find dig sites, or travel through groups of mobs to reach the area. The dig sites in Draenor are , , and .

Some cool items you can get via Draenor Archaeology are and . You can also work towards achievements like which reward the title.

Battle Pets

Wild battle pets are located all around Draenor. You can battle these pets to capture them and add to your collection, or defeat them to earn experience for your current pet team. Collecting the wild pets required for rewards .

Flying helps you spot the pets you need quickly—the in Talador and in Spires of Arak can be hard to find—as well as travel between pet battles faster, which means you level your pets faster.

Flying also lets you travel between pet tamers and legendary pets faster--the pets for are especially spread out and slow to get to on foot.

Exploration

Flying provides a safe way for players to check out the starting zone for the opposing faction— and .

Plus, flying means you no longer have to squeeze through the gigantic pile of fallen rocks when getting to .

Flying-Only Areas

Several inaccessible Draenor areas are becoming flying-only areas in 6.2.2.

Uninstanced Highmaul in Nagrand.

This area has ogres that drop battle pets and Garrison Resources.

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Uninstanced Hellfire Citadel in Tanaan Jungle.

This area has the rare who drops the --great for world PvP.

Eastern Tanaan Jungle.

This area has several orc rares who drop toys needed for , and lets you explore the lvl 90 area in more detail.

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Leveling on Alts

Flying can help speed up the leveling process on alts. Unlocking means all 90+ alts can fly in Draenor.

Flying lets you skip packs of mobs which are tricky, getting to the quest objective faster.

Flying allows players to scan for gathering nodes or treasures, which grant decent experience if under 100.

Flying is useful when navigating confusing terrain, such as the steep hills in Spires of Arak.

Professions

Flying between herbalism and mining nodes is great for leveling up your professions. The bad news is that everyone else will be flying as well, so finding nodes may be harder than before!

Fishing is another profession that will benefit from flying, as you can fly from pool to pool faster. You have a chance to catch Lunkers while fishing in Draenor, which can be used to purchase cool rewards like . Each zone has a different type of fish which can be used for Draenor food as well.

Rare Spawns

Rare spawns are plentiful around Draenor, and you may have run into a few while leveling up. If you’re level 100, some are still worth killing for items like mounts. If you have flying and are leveling on an alt, hunting down rare spawns is definitely worth it as they give great experience and leveling loot.

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Wand that blows bubbles.

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Summons a hologram of Archimonde.

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Charms critters to follow you.

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Places down spooky campfire which reduces Spirit.

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Turn into skeletal pirate orc with weapons poking through body.

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Disguise: yourself as a swashbuckler of the Iron Seas. (2 Hrs Cooldown)

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Character Effect: Get all wrapped up.

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Release Murmur's wail.

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Disguise: Warsong orc.

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Petrify a critter for 5 min.

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Drain the last whispers of life from a corpse.

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Character Effect: Turns breath frosty.

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Looted from from the Blood Moon event in Tanaan.

Turn into a red ooze.

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Stables Bonus

Most players tore down the Stables after collecting their mounts, but the Stables increases in usefulness in 6.2.1.

The Level 1 Stables perk lets players stay mounted when interacting with objects like looting treasures, gathering nodes, and archaeology fragments. Flying takes it to the next level—you stay on your flying mount when looting now which saves seconds every time you stop.

The Level 2 perk removes the chance you'll be dazed by mobs in Draenor, and the Level 3 perk increases mount speed in Draenor by 20% so you can get to your destination faster.

Learn about all the benefits and construction costs with our Stables Guide.

Tanaan Jungle

If you want to complete more of Tanaan Jungle beyond , flying can help speed things up.

, the daily quest for reputation, requires you to kill rates and loot treasure chests. Since you’ve hit Revered with flying, you’re probably low on personal treasure chests to loot. Flying can help you see what chests and rare spawns are up quickly.

The mobs needed for are located in different areas of the zone, and multiple ones can be up at once. Flying ensures you get to their spawn point quickly. Even if you have the Hellbane achievement, it’s worth killing them daily for a chance at which can contain the , , and mounts.

is acquired from gathering professions in Tanaan Jungle, so flying lets you quickly grab nodes.

The 15 legendary battle pets for are spread out.

If you don’t have Shipyard blueprints yet, or other special loot from rare spawns, flying lets you quickly reach them when they’re up.

While can help in Tanaan, there are times where you simply fall into the lava or down a cliff, and it’s on cool down. Flying should reduce a lot of senseless deaths in Tanaan!

Treasures

You’ll have already looted 100 treasures for , but flying lets you grab the other 100+ treasures easily—no more jumping games required. If you are below 100, treasures offer great experience as well as useful loot when leveling up.

Treasures that include bad jumping games, which you probably skipped for , are:

Most of the treasures in Nagrand, including the treasures accessible via Gliders, and the precariously-positioned Adventurer's Satchels.

Spires of Arak has several chests scattered around Arakkoa areas that contain .

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Summons ogres to fight.

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Contained in Dazzling Rod chest in Tanaan.

Play laser tag with friends-grow when you successfully hit someone.

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Character Effect: Smoke appears on feet.

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Loot from Curious Deathweb Egg in Deathweb Hollow, Talador

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Loot and wait for it to hatch.

Disguise: yourself as a Goren.

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in northern Tanaan.

Transform into member of Burning Legion--multiple disguise option. Soulstone in forehead remains with other disguises.

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Jump up via to loot . In 14 days, turns into

Podling disguise.

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Loot from --requires to not take damage from clouds.

Generates 1-3 , which are applied to battle pets to turn them fel-tinted.

Комментарии

Комментарий от Yutto

I'm still of the mind that flying is something that should stay away from this and future expansions.

Комментарий от Mightylorddk

on 2015-08-03T12:10:48-05:00

No offence, but kind of useless post :D we all know that how flying will help us :3

Комментарий от minnieheals

on 2015-08-03T12:17:08-05:00

I'm glad that they made this achievement for flying rather than simply giving it to us, and wouldn't mind this being a requirement in future expansions. It seems to be a good compromise between the people who want flying and those who don't. I personally like flying because I have no sense of direction, and finding things even when looking at the map can be a nightmare on the ground. I don't mind earning it, but would still like to have the option, and then those who don't want to don't have to put the work in to get it.

Either way, I'm excited about flying soon. I have a few more treasures to get for the achievement and then I've completed it, and am excited about actually leveling my other 90s that are sitting dormant.

Комментарий от azahel

on 2015-08-03T12:17:29-05:00

It's kinda sad that we need a post to show what good flying does.

Комментарий от Terve

on 2015-08-03T12:19:07-05:00

Perfect headline - "Content Made Easier by Flying in Draenor". Now wait for crying about nothing to do because people flew through content instead of enjoying it.

For the record, I don't mind flying and I do like how they waited until the content was trivial before adding it and I definitely hope they keep a similar model moving forward. But personally, after not having flying for 9 months, I don't think the game needs it. However, I know I'm in the minority...

Комментарий от Ishna

on 2015-08-03T12:20:27-05:00

Yeah, now Ill get those annoying treasures from Nagrand with my alts I only bothered getting with my main :P

Комментарий от lankybrit

on 2015-08-03T12:21:48-05:00

No offence, but kind of useless post :D we all know that how flying will help us :3

Peter Gibbons: Let me ask you something. When you come in on Monday and you're not feeling real well, does anyone ever say to you, "Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays?"Lawrence: No. No, man. <bleep>, no, man. I believe you'd get your <rear> kicked sayin' something like that, man.

And its always nice to read about what I may have forgotten to do, so I agree with ya, just had to quote it! :)

Комментарий от FyreNight

on 2015-08-03T12:28:36-05:00

I'm still of the mind that flying is something that should stay away from this and future expansions.

and you are more than welcome to that opinion and to choose not to take advantage of flying. but to try and dictate how others are to play the game and to basically gimp half the mounts in the game that were built for flying in all future expansions, is selfish. :)

Комментарий от Purgatorywolf

on 2015-08-03T12:28:42-05:00

It's a nice little recap for collectors to remind them of things to get, and learned there will be new areas and stuff to get and kill in the new patch. Wewt.

P.S. If you don't think flying should be in the game (past, present, or future), I challenge you to never use your flying mounts, ever. :)

Комментарий от adsamcik

on 2015-08-03T12:31:35-05:00

I think this is how it should work in future expansions. The flying should be there from the start (or next major content patch), but you would have to complete most of the content first. Also if a zone would be added in a patch, I would add flying to it with the next major patch, because it's content won't be relevant after that.

Комментарий от SilverSapphire

on 2015-08-03T12:42:03-05:00

I'm still of the mind that flying is something that should stay away from this and future expansions.

and you are more than welcome to that opinion and to choose not to take advantage of flying. but to try and dictate how others are to play the game and to basically gimp half the mounts in the game that were built for flying in all future expansions, is selfish. :)The same could be said to those who are adamant about getting flying.Flying affects everyone, whether they want to partake in it or not (getting fly-ganked for example), and by flying everywhere, you're not putting your ground mounts to much use.So, before you call someone selfish for their opinion of how the game works, you should consider just how selfish your own point of view is.

Комментарий от Ferezilla

on 2015-08-03T12:47:49-05:00

I'm still of the mind that flying is something that should stay away from this and future expansions.

Yeah but people complained too hard, so Blizzard caved in and gave them flying. I wish they'd stick to their guns and make the game THEY want to instead of what the vocal minority of players who must have flying want.

Комментарий от Nihilatos

on 2015-08-03T12:50:03-05:00

Why do I get the feeling patch 6.2.1 will be the pre-patch before the next expansion is released...

Комментарий от Gahan

on 2015-08-03T12:54:22-05:00

Also if a zone would be added in a patch, I would add flying to it with the next major patch, because it's content won't be relevant after that.

It would indeed be nice to fly on Timeless Isle, just to gather those last couple of battle pets that never dropped and make rude gestures at the High Priests of Ordos.

Комментарий от Carcoza

on 2015-08-03T12:57:42-05:00

Great guide, thanks alot <3

Комментарий от hakwea

on 2015-08-03T12:57:59-05:00

So, before you call someone selfish for their opinion of how the game works, you should consider just how selfish your own point of view is.

The thing is though you can always choose to not fly. Very rarely do people choose that option though. So why is it a bad thing to be able to do something that they wouldn't choose to do when they have the choice?

You can even get into the non instanced high maul with out flying. I've done it on live. Fly ganking only impacts you if you are on a PvP server and you can still be mount ganked. Does it matter if they use the land or air? In the end you get ganked.

Those who don't want flying simply don't have to use it. And they will be impacted very little.

Комментарий от SquirePip

on 2015-08-03T13:02:38-05:00

I'm still of the mind that flying is something that should stay away from this and future expansions.

agreed I don't mind flying but I think current content is better without it. My opinion is that flying should have been added when the prepatch with all the changes for the next xpac comes out.

Комментарий от SquirePip

on 2015-08-03T13:08:51-05:00

So, before you call someone selfish for their opinion of how the game works, you should consider just how selfish your own point of view is.

The thing is though you can always choose to not fly. Very rarely do people choose that option though. So why is it a bad thing to be able to do something that they wouldn't choose to do when they have the choice?

You can even get into the non instanced high maul with out flying. I've done it on live. Fly ganking only impacts you if you are on a PvP server and you can still be mount ganked. Does it matter if they use the land or air? In the end you get ganked.

Those who don't want flying simply don't have to use it. And they will be impacted very little.

you can also choose to walk down the highway instead of driving. the problem isn't i don't want to fly it's the shift in the game that occurs to the entire player base with flying. Everything about the game like quests has to be designed different with flying in the picture. Players play differently when they know they can fly. Flying affects everyone whether they choose to fly or not, and IMO it affects it the wrong way. With flying the game becomes avoid everything I can, not experience everything I can.

Комментарий от Bluntpower

on 2015-08-03T13:16:35-05:00

No offence, but kind of useless post

if they could they made a "how to wipe ur butt" guide too :Di bet at the bottom it would even say the usual "you'll thank us later" :D